Two new documentaries expose the ubiquitous presence of plastic pollution in the environment and its potential risks to human health, particularly for developing fetuses and infants exposed to microplastics in the womb and through breast milk.
Greed
Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites
The plan is to displace the peasantry, create a land market and amalgamate landholdings to form larger farms that are more suited to international land investors and industrial farming.
Take Your Fluoride and Shut Up
If we could enforce our inalienable right to choose what goes into our bodies, there would be no need to waste eight years of time and money arguing the technicalities of toxins. We could just say: “Shut up and shove your fluoride.”
Plastics, Oil Industry Deceived Public on Recycling Use
Industries knew plastics could not be recycled, yet they promoted it to boost disposability profits, echoing Big Tobacco’s campaigns of deception.
Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
The scourge of microplastics
Microplastics have now been found in our blood, showing they can travel around the body, potentially ending up lodged in our organs.
How Corporate Media Outlets Failed Their Readers in 2024
It is time for corporate media to represent the views and interests of the majority of Americans, instead of repeating the increasingly transparent lies told by those in positions of power and wealth.
The law firm helping Big Oil weaponize the First Amendment
Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend fossil fuel companies and silence the industry’s critics.
The Benefits and Triumph of Public Domain Over Disney
Few symbols have stood the test of time like Disney’s iconic Mickey Mouse. But beneath the cheerful exterior of this beloved character lies a fiercely guarded empire, a testament to Disney’s unyielding efforts to extend the copyright of its most famous resident.
Regenerative agriculture was a good idea…
It’s probably no coincidence that corporations decided to embrace regenerative agriculture in 2019, the year that all 197 member countries of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation endorsed a set of “10 elements of agroecology”.
Money systems at the root of omnicide
Expansionist monetary systems turn us all into oppressors and exploiters of ourselves, each other and wider nature.
“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
There is not enough collateral anywhere to satisfy all the derivative claims. The majority of derivatives now involve interest rate swaps, and interest rates have shot up. The bubble looks ready to pop.
